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newsAlso in this section: Around the Americas Guatemalan human rights voice silenced Activist
Alvaro Juárez was murdered July 8 while eating dinner with
his wife. Though Juárez had a long career of saying
dangerous things and fighting for human rights causes, his
death may correspond to his recent work against the Central
American Free Trade Agreement. His colleagues have also been
receiving death threats, according to Americas.org. Posada Carriles case on hold in El SalvadorThe
Salvadorian justice system has decided to suspend its calls
for extradition for right wing terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles from the US. The General Public Prosecutor decided
not to back the initiative by Judge Alba Estela Zelaya to
have Posada Carriles brought to face charges for false
documents and identification, for which he could have faced
up to 12 years in a Salvadorian prison, according to El
Faro. Posada Carriles is also wanted in several countries
for his alleged involvement in the 1975 of a Cubana airliner
that killed 73 people, including the Cuban national fencing
team, several diplomats and a number of tourists. Barbados vendors sackedThe
Barbados Sanitation Service Authority demolished the stalls
of over 100 vendors behind the Cheapside Market late one
night last week, according to the Barbados Advocate.
Vendors, politicians, and citizens have expressed
disappointment and concern. The
Barbados Tourism Investment Inc. “owns the property from
which the vendors' stalls and trays were removed,” and is
responsible for “rebuilding them,” the Nation Newspaper
sites Attorney-General Mia Mottley as saying. They report
that, though the investigation had yet to turn up anything,
the State would also help compensate the Vendors. DR-CAFTA updateEl
Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have already ratified the
Central American Free trade Agreement. Costa Rica, the
Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and the US governments are
still debating the issue. Peruvian Free Trade Agreement protestsThousands
of people took to the streets of Lima July 15 to protest the
proposed Free Trade Agreement with America. Protesters
demonstrated over fears that Peruvian farmers would be
trapped into a market where they couldn’t compete with
subsidized US agricultural products, and that the deal would
privilege more expensive US pharmaceuticals. Stumping for Colombian paramilitary amnestyColombia’s
President Álvaro Uribe has been all over Europe trying to
drum support for the Peace and Justice Law, in which
Colombian Paramilitaries would disarm and demobilize in
exchange for short sentences or amnesty. The law has met
with significant opposition on the grounds that it could
amount to letting drug lords, terrorists and mass murderers
off easy. Subcomandante
Marcos pans Obrador
Weighing
in on the upcoming Mexican presidential elections, Zapatista
leader Subcomandante Marcos stated that the left’s leading
candidate, former Mexico City Mayor López Obrador’s
platform has a hidden agenda that will make the rich richer
and Mexico’s downtrodden worse off. Marcos compared
Obrador’s plan to the social liberalism of former Mexican
President Carlos Salinas, suggesting the former’s program
was more neo-liberal than social. St. Lucia Prime Minister getting tough on VenezuelaSt.
Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony has asked Venezuelan
ambassador Carmen Aponte to talk with him about the
participation of Venezuelan citizens in drug trafficking on
the island nation. Anthony has threatened to end the
privilege of visa waivers that Venezuelans currently enjoy,
according to The Weekend Star. Vote announced for Netherlands AntillesThe
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles has pronounced a
date for national elections. Next January 2, voters on all
five islands will have the opportunity to select
representatives in the “Staten,” or National Parliament,
the Daily Herald reports. Tobago Heritage Festival beginsThe
19th annual Tobago Heritage Festival began July 15, and will
last two weeks. Events will include “the
Les Coteaux Folk Tales and Superstitions, the Moriah Old
Time Wedding, the Folk Fiesta, the Plymouth Old Time
Carnival and Pembroke's Salaka Feast,” as well as
traditional Goat and Crab races, says the Tobago News.
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